Thin-film solar makers want to work with the 64-square-foot sheets of glass used by Applied's LCD customers, but solar glass is four times as thick as display glass.
Also, you wouldn't find the same, noise-canceling half-inch-thick glass polished with the same pumice used to sharpen observatory telescopes.
They provide insight to what is actually going on within the company, and allow employees to breakthrough the often thick glass walls of organizational silos.
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More often than not, the hurdle of conforming to traditional roles within families poses as much of a barrier to businesswomen in India as the still-too-thick glass ceiling at companies.
At least in prison, she could sit with him at a table for a few hours instead of having to settle for a few minutes of conversation behind a thick glass partition at the county jail, she said.
The furnishings, though, looked much the same the modern taste of twenty years ago, boxy and stuffed, bare wood and monochrome wool, coffee tables of thick glass on cruciform legs of stainless steel, all mixed with Orientals and family antiques.
Floor-to-ceiling windows are made of thick crystalline glass embedded with mineral particles to cut out glare.
He is only allowed to see his family once a year and visitors are separated by a thick wall of glass.
Since women comprise half of the managers and other professionals in the American workforce, the glass ceiling still seems formidably thick.
At about the same time, the nuclear industry started using force feedback devices to help workers manipulate hazardous, radioactive materials with slave arms through thick, leaded glass.
This is why electronics in solar cells and TVs are covered with a rigid, thick barrier such as glass or expensive encapsulation layers.
The rillettes in a potted-duck appetizer were packed tightly into a small glass jar and sealed with a thick layer of creamy, peppered lard for spreading on toast triangles, while a mammoth pork chop, marbled with luscious fat, tasted of buttered popcorn.
At 0.98 inches thick, with a multitouch glass trackpad, up eight gigs of memory and an available 2.93 Mhz Intel Core Duo processor, it's a must have for spendy Mac fans who need a widescreen machine.
That done, he deposits them in a 100 nanometre-thick layer on top of a piece of glass, to which they stick without the need for glue.
Mrs Philpotts' mother, who lived with the family, said she had heard an explosion and the sound of broken glass but had been unable to reach her daughter because of thick smoke.
But in the bowels of a particular metropolitan area--where conduits are already becoming choked with thick copper wire--the human-hair-sized glass has almost immediate prospects.
For both modes of crystal fibre, the pattern of holes is generated by stacking hollow glass tubes a millimetre or so in diameter to form a rod several centimetres thick.
One of the glasses, identified as a "joker, " was the standard thick-sided, easy-to-stack 16-ounce pub glass.
At the time-warped Palms Grill Cafe, thick slabs of gooseberry, peach and sour cream raisin tempt from a glass case, while the Andrews Sisters croon from the stereo.
His own windows, at St Cadoc's chapel in Cowbridge in South Wales, or in the Church of Sts Peter and Paul at Great Somerford in Wiltshire, showed a love of blocks of pure colour carefully contained within thick, angular leads, especially glowing blues and rich reds: the medieval way of glass.
Now rectangles of glass for computer screens and LCD televisions that are 6 feet wide, 7 feet tall and less than a millimeter thick.
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